Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The isolation he keeps me in . |
| 2 | So he has me do that and on other songs he has me play bass . |
| 3 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 4 | West wins this third Diamond trick with the Queen and all he has left in his hand are 3 Hearts , and whatever card he plays he must give you the last three tricks in that suit . |
| 5 | pulling a different way , I used to pull it with my legs he pulls it with his back . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ Inside the ring he impresses you with his style and his marvellous technique . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ Inside the ring he impresses you with his style and his marvellous technique . |
| 8 | In spring he dons his curious plumage : long ear tufts , and dramatic barred , streaked , blobbed or plain ruff-collar . |
| 9 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 10 | Well according to Dennis he thinks it 's eight thousand . |
| 11 | We can only speculate on Wordsworth 's political beliefs before 1792 — in The Prelude he attributes his awakening to a French soldier , Beaupuy — ( see below ) . |
| 12 | Leaving the Chelsea Arts Club he unlocks his fluorescent green mountain bike , which has a child 's seat on the crossbar . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose he 's a bit old for that sort of thing , ’ said Lili , ‘ although with that ridiculous car he drives he does seem to be trying to give an impression of boyish insouciance . ’ |
| 14 | In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago . |
| 15 | In all these respects he reminds us today of Schleiermacher . |
| 16 | After watching this film I have overthrown an ideal I have cherished and protected against every attack for more than 30 years : that in no circumstances should a man be murdered by conscious decision of the State in revenge for a murder he has himself committed . |
| 17 | so he says but I do n't know what to do he says cos if there 's a job you know , if there 's any overtime , cos there ai n't been none but if there 's any overtime he says I do n't know what to do I said bloody do the overtime , let her hang about . |
| 18 | where you been , I says where you been , aye he says aye he says , my fault he says I did n't get round did I ? |
| 19 | By pre-adjunct he means adjectives in prenominal attributive position ; by characterisation he means something like inherent or permanent ( to which one should perhaps add some cautious and flexible condition such as " in the circumstances " ) . |
| 20 | The other teenagers he meets there are mainly criminals — thieves , prostitutes and drug pedlars — and most of them are members of the infamous teenage gangs which sometimes turn the city into a battleground . |
| 21 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |
| 22 | In situations of moral dilemma he does what he considers must be done , even though it involves him in distress and suffering . |
| 23 | Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company . |
| 24 | in here , you just tape them on , bang them down who it was and when it was and then on Friday he picks them up and you get twenty five quids worth of vouchers from Marks and Spencers . |
| 25 | From Hegel he derives his basic manner of thinking , asserting the primacy of experience . |
| 26 | So that ewes er , are , are , er , erm , protected by him , erm in Leicestershire he says it 's open countryside and he says I do n't lose that many by foxes , he says I 'm more , er er at unease with other things . |
| 27 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 28 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 29 | These various substantives evoke a state or quality which disposes the support to perform an action ( willingness , desire , impudence , ability , etc. ) , an action he performs which prevents or could prevent him from realizing it ( hesitation , refusal , reluctance , etc. ) , something he needs in order to realize it ( right , permission ) , a circumstance in which he finds himself which favours something 's occurrence ( chance , occasion ) , etc. — all of which evoke a situation existing before the infinitive event , and so imply a reference to a prior position of the support . |
| 30 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |